Toyota's New Scion Brand to Offer
'New Model' of Auto Distribution

By

Norihiko Shirouzu Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 27, 2002 12:51 a.m. ET

DETROIT -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s upcoming youth-targeted brand will try to offer a "new model" of automobile distribution that, among other things, aims to cut dealer inventories by more than half, said a senior company executive.

Yoshi Inaba, head of Toyota's U.S. sales unit in Torrance, Calif., said that Toyota dealers usually have 35 to 45 days of supply. "Our objective is to more than halve that" with the new...